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When I was trying to describe to my husband what a gene knockout mouse was, his impulsive thoughts came through…

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Nvidia can now create Genomes from scratch

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Beware of your AI summaries (or at least google weird terms I guess)

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Vegetative Electron

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Could you make penicillin?

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Are people seriously becoming concerned about microwaves?

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How… in Gods name… do I get this unstuck? It is 11pm *cries*

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Do PIs really just succeed off the backs of underpaid trainees

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De-extinction of dodos & mammoths

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1 month ago

Paper notebooks or e-notebooks?

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DEI champions vanished from my school

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AI doesn’t know what peanuts, milk, or eggs looks like.

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What's up Doc?

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Up in arms about NIH but not a peep about DEI. Academia is just 🫠

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More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals

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1 month ago

Does the feeling of "I need to do more" ever go away

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1 month ago

Insecure about being a lab tech in academia

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1 month ago

Help Me Make My Lab Less Miserable

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‘This Is What Makes Us Rich’: Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab

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genomics

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1 month ago

Chat GPT in the lab

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1 month ago

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This thing is gonna expose how stupid I really am to the rest of the lab. I swear I can do conversions but for some reason this table confuses me.

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‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate

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2 months ago

I think I want to study biology?

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2 months ago

need a sanity check on what's normal

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2 months ago

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Corporations can’t meme

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2 months ago

One man’s hazmat is another man’s Christmas present.

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Microplatics/ Food Science Tech

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2 months ago

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Curiosity killed the university student

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